WO1993001963A1 - Mud flap for vehicles - Google Patents
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- WO1993001963A1 WO1993001963A1 PCT/EP1992/001668 EP9201668W WO9301963A1 WO 1993001963 A1 WO1993001963 A1 WO 1993001963A1 EP 9201668 W EP9201668 W EP 9201668W WO 9301963 A1 WO9301963 A1 WO 9301963A1
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- the invention relates to a spray protection device for motor vehicles or motor vehicle trailers for reducing the spray occurring behind a moving vehicle and produced by the wheels rolling on wet roads, which has the shape of a flat structure with a first vehicle wheel facing the relevant vehicle wheel and a second one facing away from this wheel Has side, wherein the first side is formed by an inlet layer having water passage openings, on the rear side thereof facing away from the first side at least one spacer is provided to create a cavity between the inlet layer and a carrier for the spacer and the inlet layer.
- the invention relates to a water absorber in accordance with Directive 91/226 / EEC of the Council of the European Communities of March 27, 1991.
- Such a spray protection device can be part of the wheel cover and / or the dirt trap and / or the apron adjoining the wheel cover laterally, but it is also possible to add such a spray protection device to the wheel cover and / or the dirt trap and / or the apron fasten.
- the wheel cover is usually to be understood as a fender
- the dirt trap is a component attached behind the wheel in question on the lower part of the chassis or a loading area or on the wheel cover and extends in the direction of the road surface. If it was established at the beginning that a generic spray protection device has the shape of a flat structure, this should be understood to mean that the dimensions of the surface of the spray protection device are large compared to its thickness.
- a first known spray protection device (EP-A-0 425 852) comprises a rigid plate-shaped rear component with L-shaped cross-section and vertically extending side areas extending towards the vehicle wheel - the rear component therefore has a U-shaped cross-section Shaped with inwardly angled legs - and a rigid, the inlet layer forming front component, which is held by the L-shaped side regions of the rear component, whereby a cavity is created between the front and rear component.
- the front component is formed by two or more strips or struts which run in the vertical direction, in particular triangular in cross section, and by strips or struts which are connected to them and run in the horizontal direction, in particular like the former.
- Ribs for drainage purposes are formed on the rear component, as are numerous pin-like projections which, like the ribs, extend into the cavity and absorb the kinetic energy of the water penetrating through the front component into the spray protection device serve.
- the aforementioned publication deals with the dimensioning and the arrangement of the projections and the ribs on the rear component, that is to say with the problem of draining the water that has got into the cavity, and with the design of the front component formed by webs and with the problem the attachment of this front component to the rear component.
- a spray protection device of the type described at the outset which is known from GB-2 132 148-A, comprises an inlet layer which is designed in accordance with the front component of the spray protection device described above, as well as an energy-absorbing layer and a spacer layer.
- the energy-absorbing layer is formed by two sets of parallel elongated elements, each crossing at a certain angle
- the spacer layer is formed by a diamond-shaped grid extruded as a whole, which either the inlet layer and the energy-absorbing layer from each other spaced or keeps the latter layers at a distance from a rear component, such as. B. a splash cloth, which in turn holds the splash guard.
- At least the known spray protection device dealt with in the first place is a fully assembled component, which has the disadvantage that, because of the variety of types of vehicles, an extraordinarily large number of different spray protection devices has to be manufactured and kept in stock.
- the second known spray protection device is designed to be so flexible that it can be used, for example, to equip a fender with a relatively small radius of curvature, the assembly of the various layers proves to be complex and difficult, since their inherent elasticity or inherent rigidity can be adapted to the Counteracts curvature of the fender.
- This spray protection device like the one discussed first, is particularly susceptible to damage, for example due to stones thrown against the spray protection device, due to the filigree structure of the inlet layer.
- the edge regions of the inlet layer which are formed by end sections of the parallel webs. represent weak points of this known spray protection device.
- the invention was based on the object of specifying a spray protection device of the type in question in which the problems of known spray protection devices described above do not occur and which can be produced at reasonable costs.
- the inlet layer is formed by a textile material web which is flexible in any direction.
- a textile material web is to be understood as a web of any fabric, knitted fabric, knitted fabric or fleece (also needle fleece) made of any textile material, metal wire or plastic material.
- the property "flexible in any direction” is to be understood to mean that the textile material web forming the inlet layer can be deflected with respect to any straight line lying in the plane of the web, that is to say it can be adapted to any surface structure without resistance in particular.
- the Spray protection device designed according to the invention can be freely assembled and adapted to any type of vehicle, the spacer to be described at a later point not intended to significantly impair the flexibility of the textile material web.
- the second side of the spray protection device is formed by the back of the material web and / or the spacer.
- the carrier is part of the spray protection device, eg. B. in particular a water-impermeable flat plastic material
- the carrier it is advisable to make the carrier at least sufficiently flexible that it can be easily adapted to the part of the vehicle on which it is to be mounted. In the latter case, too, it proves to be advantageous to select or design the carrier in such a way that the spray protection device can be freely assembled.
- a non-generic, laminated spray protection device is known from US Pat. No. 3,899,192 and US Pat. No. 4,598,000, which comprises a three-dimensional thermoplastic layer provided with elongate projections, which is applied to a water-impermeable rear layer and there is attached.
- the elongated protrusions can consist of any material, in particular of a molded or thermoplastic plastic compound applied to the material web in some other way, but protrusions formed by wire bristles are also conceivable. However, protrusions made of textile materials, such as plastic fibers and / or plastic tapes, are preferred.
- the pile fabric can be a tufted fabric in which the U-shaped tufts forming the pile are held in a knitted fabric, fabric or fleece as a carrier layer.
- the pole can also be anchored in the actual material web by a textile bond; in this case the material web is in particular formed by a basic knitted fabric with loops rising from the plane of the knitted fabric, the latter being able to be cut off or separated parallel to the plane of the basic knitted fabric to form projections having a free end. It has proven to be particularly advantageous to form the material web including the pole from a Raschel fabric.
- a Raschel product manufactured as a two-surface Raschel product then only needs to be separated between its two flat material webs in a manner known per se.
- the permeability of the Raschel fabric can also serve as an inlet layer of the spray protection device according to the invention, even when it is not separated. If the threads or wires connecting the two flat material webs of a two-surface Raschel fabric are sufficiently stiff, they can even form the spacers and the one flat material web the carrier.
- the material web forming the inlet layer can preferably be an artificial turf web known per se, which, however, must have sufficient water permeability for this.
- the spacer or spacers it is of crucial importance that the amount of water that has passed through the material web can be drained away sufficiently quickly within the cavity created by the spacer or spacers.
- the material web protrudes toward the rear and forms spacers, eg. B. in the form of spacer bolts or rivets and the like, which are attached to the web.
- spacers eg. B. in the form of spacer bolts or rivets and the like
- projections molded onto the back of the material web are also conceivable, which can be molded onto the back of the material web in the form of a hardenable mass, or by means of suitable devices, for example rollers provided with recesses.
- Preferred embodiments of the spray protection device according to the invention have a sandwich structure, especially when the carrier is part of the spray protection device or after the latter on a carrier belonging to the motor vehicle concerned, such as, for example, B. the fender or the strainer was attached.
- the spray protection device is preferably designed in such a way that it has a second material web forming the carrier, which, like the first material web forming the inlet layer, is of flexible design and is connected to it in such a way that the two material webs and the spacer form a flat, flexible sandwich Form entities.
- such a splash protection device can be adapted to any shape of an inside of the fender; it can also be assembled very inexpensively, for example from a sandwich web available by the meter, in that the individual sandwich layers of the spray protection device can be cut to the desired dimension by a single cutting process, and a separate packaging process is not required for each individual layer. This also reliably avoids the problem that frequently arises when the inlet layer, spacer material and carrier are assembled separately, in that the resulting dimensions differ from one another and time-consuming reworking has to be carried out.
- connection of the various elements of the spray protection device or, in particular, of the sandwich structure can, depending on the materials used, be carried out by all known joining methods, such as welding, gluing, connecting by means of mechanical connecting elements, Sewing or the like, both with and without additional auxiliaries.
- a particularly cost-effective embodiment of the spray protection device according to the invention with a sandwich structure is a two-layer knitted fabric; this is understood to mean two flat material webs which are connected to one another by threads, yarns, wires or tapes which are integrated in the webs; which are preferably made of plastic rial existing threads, yarns, wires or tapes have such inherent rigidity for the application in question that a cavity is formed between the two flat material webs in which the water which has entered through the flat material web serving as the inlet layer can flow off .
- a spray protection device of this type is characterized by good water absorption, high flexibility and good long-term behavior, especially when weather-resistant plastic materials are used. The kinetic energy of the water striking it is absorbed by the structured surface of the knitted first material web. The water passing through the first material web can flow downwards and / or to the sides between the connecting webs formed by the stiff threads, yarns, etc.
- spacer bolts or rivets or the like can be used as spacers in the spray protection devices according to the invention described above; however, the spacer can also be formed by a flexible layer provided with openings, the openings communicating with one another so that the water penetrating through the first material web can be discharged through the layer and / or in the layer.
- the advantages of such a spacer layer can be seen in particular in the fact that the first material web over its entire surface, and not only selectively, such as. B. in the case of the spacer bolts, is held and supported at a distance from the carrier.
- opening in the spacer layer is not to be understood here as meaning that a channel connecting both sides of the spacer layer must be present, and if such a channel-shaped opening is present, it does not necessarily have to be in a plan view of the spacer layer form a passage opening, but it is only to be based on the fact that cavities which merge into one another are provided in the spacer layer and which at least partially adjoin the first material web and which must be at least so large that they do not form through the impurities which have passed through the first material web are blocked and that the water penetrating through the first material web can be discharged through the cavities.
- the spacer layer is formed by a wire mesh as can be obtained from AKZO.
- a wire mesh is a layer of wires running irregularly above and below one another, which are connected to one another and can consist of metal or plastic.
- Such a layer is characterized by high water permeability and good flexibility and is almost insensitive to any type of mechanical action. Also to be emphasized is the ideal cleaning behavior of such a wire mesh.
- the spacer layer comprises a first layer in the form of an essentially flat wire mesh and a second layer in the form of a second wire mesh forming a three-dimensional hill structure.
- the first layer of the spacer layer preferably lies on the first material web and the second layer on the carrier, as a result of which a flat connection with the first layer is possible and at the same time the advantages of a hill structure can be exploited, namely an even better flexibility and adaptability to the respective fender shape, as well as the almost certain exclusion of blockages within the spacer layer due to the hill structure created large voids between the first web of material and the carrier.
- the two layers can be connected to one another in any way, in particular by seams, but for reasons of durability it is recommended to weld the two layers to one another.
- a spray protection device the spacer layer of which is formed by a, in particular impregnated and knitted or woven material web, which is deformed in accordance with a three-dimensional hill structure and has approximately the surface shape of one half of a commercially available egg carton (possibly reduced in size).
- the spacer layer described above can be connected at its elevations or in the region of its valleys to the material web forming the inlet layer, in the first case that by the first dimension. water penetrating the material web, possibly containing solid dirt particles, without having to pass through the plastic web, can flow off between the first material web and the plastic web, that is to say between the hills.
- a spray protection device according to the invention has a sandwich structure with a carrier belonging to the spray protection device, it has proven to be particularly advantageous with regard to stability if the second material web forming the carrier is a flexible plastic plate which can be fastened by means of suitable fastening elements, such as screws, Bolts, pins with resilient securing elements or the like, can be attached to the fender of a motor vehicle.
- suitable fastening elements such as screws, Bolts, pins with resilient securing elements or the like
- the carrier has projections which protrude towards the front and form spacers which, like the back of the first material web, can be molded onto the front of the carrier, in particular molded on.
- the embodiment of the spray protection device in question can be improved in such a way that at least some of the projections at the same time serves as fastening elements for the material web forming the inlet layer.
- This part of the projections is then preferably pin-like and longer than the other projections, which only form spacers, and can be pushed through the first material web;
- this part of the projections preferably has a stop for the material web forming the inlet layer.
- the spacer - measured in the direction perpendicular to the material web forming the first side - has a height of at least 5 mm, preferably a height of at least 6 mm, and embodiments in which the spacer has a height of approximately 8 mm are preferred. Approx. 20 mm are suggested as a sensible upper limit for the spacer height, because an even larger dimension no longer leads to a noteworthy improvement in the spray absorption, but does result in difficulties in accommodating the spray protection device.
- the free passage area should be at least approx. 5% (the sum of the areas of the water passage openings should therefore be amount to at least approx. 5% of the total area of the material web).
- FIG. 1 shows a view of a first embodiment of the spray protection device according to the invention with a pile fabric and a spacer layer only partially shown;
- FIG. 2 shows a sectional view of a second embodiment of the spray protection device according to the invention with a carrier
- FIG. 3 shows a plan view of the carrier of the spray protection device according to FIG. 2;
- FIG. 4 shows a view of a further embodiment of the spray protection device according to the invention with a fleece and a plurality of spacers;
- FIG. 5 shows a view of a fourth embodiment of the spray protection device according to the invention with a pile and a spacer layer consisting of a plurality of grids;
- FIG. 6 shows a view of a fifth embodiment of the spray protection device according to the invention consisting of a two-layer knitted fabric
- FIG. 7 is a view of a sixth embodiment of the spray protection device according to the invention with a pile and a spacer layer formed from a knitted plastic material and only partially shown
- Fig. 8 shows a last embodiment of the invention
- Spray protection device with a fleece and a spacer layer formed from a knitted plastic fabric.
- the first embodiment of the spray protection device according to the invention shown in FIG. 1 comprises an inlet layer 14 formed by a pile fabric 10 and representing a first side 12 of the spray protection device and a spacer layer 16 in the form of a wire mesh 18 which is attached by means of parallel seams 20 the side 22 of the pile fabric 10 facing away from the first side 12 is fastened.
- the spacer layer 16 lies, for example, against the side of a fender facing the vehicle wheel and is fastened there with any fastening means.
- Coarse constituents such as small stones, leaves, branches and the like, which are thrown by the motor vehicle wheels against the inlet layer 14 of the spray protection device or are entrained by the water thrown against them, are retained by the pile goods 10 and either catch the eye the road back, or they get caught in the pole 26 of the inlet layer 14 formed by plastic ribbons 24 and can be removed with a water jet during normal car washing.
- Smaller floating components in the impinging water are optionally rinsed through water passage openings 28 in the pile fabric 10 and flow off with the water within the cavity 30 formed by the wire mesh 18 between the fender and pile fabric 10.
- An embodiment of the spray protection device according to the invention shown in FIG. 2 in turn comprises an artificial turf track 32 which is fastened on a layer of a wire mesh 34, and a plate-shaped carrier 36 with pin-shaped, protruding projections 38, which can be seen through the wire mesh 34 and through the artificial turf extend web 32 through and hold it thereby.
- the projections 38 have a stop 40 spaced from the carrier 36, against which the side of the wire mesh 34 facing the carrier lies;
- the double-layered inlet layer formed by tangled wire 34 and synthetic turf 32 is held in this position by securing elements 42, which are pushed onto the ends 44 of the projections 38 which are inserted through the wirewire 34 and the artificial turf 32, whereby between the carrier 36 facing side of the wire mesh and the carrier 36, a cavity 46 is formed.
- projections 38 which serve both as a spacer and as fastening elements
- further projections 48 are provided which only have a spacer function and against which the wire mesh lies.
- the projections have a conical shape, so that the cone tip penetrates into the inlet layer and the projections therefore do not exclusively have a spacer function, but also help to position the inlet layer with respect to the carrier 36.
- an inlet layer formed by only a single flexible material sheet could also be used.
- the plan view shown in FIG. 3 on the plate-shaped carrier 36 of the above exemplary embodiment shows the arrangement of the projections 38 and 48, as well as diamond-shaped openings 50 in the plastic plate 51 forming the carrier 36, which have increased flexibility loan and make it possible to clean the cavity 46 by means of a water jet or the like when the spray protection device is removed from the motor vehicle.
- the embodiment of the spray protection device according to the invention shown in FIG. 4 consists of a fleece 52 forming the inlet layer of the spray protection device, on the side of which facing away from the vehicle wheels are formed essentially conical projections 54 forming spacers.
- This embodiment is particularly inexpensive to manufacture and, due to its good flexibility, can be adapted to any shape of fender without requiring complex assembly work.
- the structured surface of the fleece absorbs the kinetic energy of the water hitting it, the solid constituents are filtered off and water which has passed through the fleece 52 cannot pass between the fleece 52 and one in the cavity formed by the projections 54 drain illustrated carrier or fender.
- FIG. 5 A particularly robust and yet very flexible embodiment of the spray protection device is shown in FIG. 5, which in turn has a knitted water-permeable pole fabric 56 as an inlet layer and a spacer layer 58 made of two double layers 60 and 62 of a plastic grid, whereby the first layer 60 is formed from two wire meshes lying essentially flat against one another and the second layer 62 consists of two wire meshes also lying against one another, but which are deformed in accordance with a three-dimensional hill structure.
- the two layers 60 and 62 are welded to one another and to the back 63 of the knitted pile fabric 56.
- FIG. 6 shows a splash protection device consisting of a Raschelware 64; its knitted and water-permeable upper fabric 68, which forms the inlet layer of the spray protection device, is sufficiently rigid and spacers forming connecting webs 70 at a distance from their likewise knitted base fabric 76 which forms the second side or a carrier layer of the spray protection device, as a result of which a cavity 78 is formed.
- the embodiment of the spray protection device according to the invention shown in FIG. 7 again comprises, as an inlet layer, a water-permeable, knitted pile fabric 80 in the form of an artificial turf sheet, on the side facing away from the visible side of which an impregnated knitted material sheet 82 having water passage openings is fastened by means of seams 84 is which the latter has previously been deformed such that hills 88 are formed from the plane 86 of the material web 82 and serve as spacers of the spray protection device.
- the spray protection device shown in FIG. 8 comprises a fleece 90 as the inlet layer and its spacer layer is formed by the same water-permeable, knitted material web 82 'as the spacer layer in the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 7; in contrast to this, however, the material web 82 'lies with its elevations 92 against the side of the fleece 90 facing away from the vehicle wheels in the assembled state of the spray protection device, so that between the plane 86' of the plastic web 82 'and the fleece 90 a cavity 94 is formed.
- the plastic web 82 'and the fleece 90 are connected to one another by seams 96.
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